Perhaps spurred by the anti-HOV lane revolt in New Jersey, two Nassau County legislators questioned the benefits of HOV lanes at a press conference Tuesday. Steve Levy and Lisanne Al...
Pennsylvania officials and towns added to the growing opposition to construction of Route 29 along the Delaware River in Trenton.
The Morrisville, PA borough council condemned the projec...
NJ grassroots anti-tax activists have already begun distributing bumper stickers around the state, and charge that the Whitman Administration has sold out its pledges of fiscal conservatism....
MTA and NYC Transit Authority officials reported yesterday that the agencies would likely end 1998 with sizeable budget surpluses. Strong economic conditions have pushed tax revenues dedicated ...
Officials from the MTA, the Port Authority and NJ Transit told reporters this week that discussions had begun toward regional adoption of the MTA's MetroCard fare collection system. Port Authorit...
There were 509,000 more daily subway and bus riders on an average weekday in May 1998 than in May 1997 - an overall 9.8% increase in ridership.
Buses
* Of the 509,000 added dai...
The "Bergen Arches" proposal to add six lanes to the east-west Jersey City roadway feeding the Holland Tunnel continues to draw attention. Jersey City Mayor Bret Schundler t...
A public outcry erupted over Long Island Railroad service last week, after irate riders tipped the NY Post to declining conditions and performance on the country's busiest commuter railroad....
Ü The Franklin Avenue Shuttle subway line in Brooklyn is scheduled to close tonight at midnight for an 18-month, $74 million rehabilitation. Fre...
Ü Metro-North Railroad has sought to boost its Rockland County ridership by marketing a "Guaranteed Ride Home" program that provides two free ...
Ü Manhattan Borough President C. Virginia Fields has asked NYC Police Commissioner Howard Safir to step up enforcement of bus ...
If it were dug up and converted to parkland, as has been proposed by groups in the Bronx (see MTR 177) the little-used Sheridan Expressway would stand in good company alongside other ...
The Regina Maersk, a cargo vessel that requires 50 foot channels when loaded to its 6,000-container capacity, visited New York Harbor Wednesday to illustrate the need for port facilities able to ha...